UK couple jailed for planning IS-inspired bomb attack after meeting on dating site

A couple who met on a Muslim dating website have been handed prison sentences for plotting an Islamic State-inspired bomb attack in Britain.

Prosecutors say Munir Mohammed, an asylum-seeker from Sudan, and London pharmacist Rowaida El-Hassan met on SingleMuslim.com and bonded over their shared extremist views, exchanging videos of beheadings and other extremist material.

Prosecutors said Mohammed volunteered to carry out an attack during Facebook exchanges with a man he believed to be an Islamic State group commander.

He was arrested in December 2016, and police found bomb-making instructions and two of the three components for the explosive TATP at his home, the explosive used in Isis attacks including Paris and Brussels.

He had also downloaded a manual on how to make ricin, a deadly poison that can kill an adult victim with just a few grains.

Munir Mohammed, left, and Rowaida El-Hassan. (Photo: AP). ()

Last month, a jury at London's Central Criminal Court found the couple guilty of preparing terrorist acts.

Judge Michael Topolski sentenced 37-year-old Mohammed on Thursday to life with no chance of parole for 14 years.